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Athens entered the war with Sparta and its allies over a trade dispute. Within a generation, the glories of the Athenian Empire were in ruins, the democracy decimated in that fearsome war. Today, let us remember the dead. And let us remember that America, like Athens, may be righteous, but that does not mean we are right...
...Bible. The last days were simply the last days of the old Jewish covenant, which ended forever in A.D. 70. Preterists take God's word to mean what it says, leaving it in its 1st century context. More information is available at www.lighthouseworldministries.com JOHN ANDERSON, PRESIDENT Lighthouse World Ministries Sparta...
...another that they're quite comfortable with the idea that airports need to look like armed camps, Americans might heed Daniel Seidemann's wise words. Seidemann is an Israeli lawyer, and hence a man for whom homeland security is an existential matter. "Society needs a balance between Athens and Sparta," he says. "If you're Athens, there's no security. If you're Sparta, you have security, but nobody wants to live there. You're talking about a balance between things that are inherently flawed." As America defends against terror, may it find a balance it can live with...
...large scale "Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships" ($19.95; 224pg; Image Comics) merely tells the back story to Agamemnon's attack on Troy. But this includes the story of Paris, a shepherd who, upon learning he's the lost son of Troy's King Priam, lustily kidnaps Sparta's Queen Helen. Preparing to retaliate, Agamemnon spends three years scheming to gather the thousand ships and heroes prophesied as pivotal to victory. One of these, Achilles, has been hidden among the female charges of a minor king to protect him from his bloody fate. The book ends where most others would...
...perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...